A Recent Analysis of Newspaper Coverage of Female Gubernatorial Candidates

question 55

Multiple Choice

A recent analysis of newspaper coverage of female gubernatorial candidates indicated that

• A) newspaper coverage focused more often on the personal life, appearance, or personality of a female candidate than it did on that of a male candidate.
• B) newspaper articles are more likely to illustrate political issues with statements made by female candidates.
• C) newspapers often fail to cover the political rallies of female candidates.
• D) male and female candidates have received equal treatment by the news media in recent elections.

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Standardized Test Statistic

A computed value that measures the difference between an observed statistic and its hypothesized value, scaled by the standard error.

P-value

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Wilcoxon Rank-sum Test

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